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NEW! Announcing our 2009-10 season:
THE SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY (multimedia)*
by Edgar Lee Masters
adapted and directed by Ethan Sinnott
October 29-31 and November 5-7, 2009
Elstad Auditorium
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY has always resurfaced, one way or another, at different points throughout Deaf theatre history. This multimedia production (with extensive use of film) is a 21st-century production of an early 20th-century work set in the 19th century, an experimental exploration of what it might mean to redefine Deaf theatre for the YouTube generation.
Excerpted from the Signet Classic edition:
"In 1915, Edgar Lee Masters published a book of dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional town called Spoon River. Based on the Midwestern towns where Masters grew up, the shocking scandals and secret tragedies of Spoon River…[the spirits of the deceased citizens]…tell the truth about their lives, and [what they share punctures] the American myth of the moral superiority of small-town life.
Spoon River is as undeniably corrupt and cruel as the big city, and is home to murderers, drunkards, crooked bankers, lechers, bitter wives and abusive husbands, failed dreamers, and a few good souls.
The freshness of this landmark work has not diminished…remains an [unsettling] American classic.”
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LESBIANS AND THE MEN WHO LOVE THEM
by Maria Cristina Garcia
a staged/signed reading
November 20-21, 2009
The Gilbert C. Eastman Studio Theatre
This will be the first staged/signed reading of Maria Cristina Garcia's partly autobiographical romantic comedy dealing with the nuanced struggles of sexual identity.
The play centers around a woman named Maria who self-identifies as a lesbian until she meets Joe. Then all hell breaks loose.
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STUDENT DIRECTORS SHOWCASE
various student directors
late February 2010
The Gilbert C. Eastman Studio Theatre
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"Erase the Hate" at Gallaudet:
CORPUS CHRISTI
by Terence McNally
directed by Ethan Sinnott
April 8-10, 2010
The Andrew Foster Auditorium
Auditions in late November
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CHARLOTTE'S WEB
by E.B. White
directed by Cheri Lundquist
April 15-18, 2010
School Matinees on April 13-15
Elstad Auditorium
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